Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-23
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest n q
Condensed Form.

A fire company has been organized
at Newport.
A mop factory has been started at
Oregon City.
The 0. p. will build a station on
their line two miles west OF Scio.
Nineteen miles OF water pipe, at a
cost of $125,000 will be laid in Port
land.
A Chinaman was drowned at the
mouth of Willow creek. He fell In
and could not swim.
The Wallowa Silver Mining Com
pany has been organized at Joseph,
with $500, 900 capital stock.
There were 1O,OOO,730 pounds of
freight shipped into Lexington during
the year ending June 80, 1887.
A 10000 bushel grain warehouse is
to be built at Knox Butte, two miles
| from Scio, on the Oregon Pacific.
Miss Sabina Page has been reap
pointed Superintendent of the Indian
School on the Umatilla reservation.
There were twenty-five fire alarms
in Portland during the month OF July,
the losses aggregating about $6OO,OOO.
The Mizpah Presbyterian church of
East Portland, has become an moor
porated body under the laws OF Oregon.
The people of North Powder have
raised $1,000 and propose to build a
wagon road to tap the Gable Cove dis
trict.
Charles Hagee, son Of Robert Ha-
gee, aged II, was bitten by rattle
snake near Mikecha, and died the fol-
lowing day.
Fifteen brick stores are in course OF
erection in Pendleton. Work on an
opera house, to cost $4,000, is pro-
crossing rapidly.
Mrs. Jacob Thompson, OF Ashland,
has bought the r. p. Mill stock ranch
and band of cattle in the Cascade
mountains for $4,000.
An open war is being waged between
contending fishermen on Miller's sands,
near Astoria, for possession of the
grounds. Several persons have been
shot.
A fve-year-old son of Widow Raj
ney, of Rogue river, was bitten twice
by rattlesnake and his life was saved
only by making the little fellow drunk
on whisky.
Bill Vickers, who SO brutally beat
surveyor in Catalow Valley recently,
has killed man somewhere in that
section of the country and left for parts
unknown.
While Messrs. Hubbard and Rice
were at work on q new school-house at
Prairie City, a cyclone destroyed the
building and injured both men, Mr..
Hubbards collar bone being broken.
While one of the narrow-guage en-
gines was being brought across the
Willamette, from Rays Landing, it
slid off the ferry, and now its smoke
stack hobs out of the water about a
foot.
VIM. Priest, County Superintendent
OF Jacksons county, died at Jackson
vile, suddenly of heart disease.
The County Court appointed N. A.
Jacobs to fill the place made vacant
by the death of Mr. Priest.
A contract has been let for building
bridge across the Santiam at Mehama
Judge Shaw and the Commissioners
OF Marion county, met with the Board
OF Linn county Commissioners, and
each agreed to pay one half the price
OF the bridge. 1t will cost 81 400.
Hyman Abram, the new Collector
OF Customs for the District of the viii.
lamette, has taken charge of his office.
and made the following appointments
l.. A: Pike, chief deputy; A. Noltner,
weigher and gauger; J. D. McKinnon,
day inspector; John G. Egan, night
inspector.
AT the Blair place near Salem, a
young colt got separated from it's
mother, and becoming frightened
started to run back and forth in a lane.
1t continued to run until it became en-.
tlrely exhausted and fell on its side.
After lying moment in that position
its eyes popped entirely out OF its head.
1t had to be killed.
Plans for the proposed suspension
bridge across the Willamette at Ore
gon City have been received. The span
Is to be 475 feet, with 100 feet shore
arms. The center of the bridge will |
be seventy-five feet above low water.
While threshing near Weston the
driver OF Sam Phillips horse. power
lost control OF the horses and they ran |
away completely demolishing the |
power, The ten horses broke loose |
iioil tne tangled mess and two of them
were atterward found a mile and half |
from the scene, with the wbifletrees
Still attached to them.
Inc steam boiler of Hale & Smith
at the Siskiyou tunnel burst. Half Of
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